Oh man, what a blast from the past. Another great site in the same vein was Acts of Gord[-1], which followed the exploits of a used game store manager. Similarly semi-apocryphal and perhaps a little overstated, but highly enjoyable.
As the phrase goes, shit happens. Nothing interesting may happen on a normal day but there's a lot of days and eventually you roll up all manner of interesting occurrences.
I think the BOFH files may have come from the NZ Dialcom licensee originally.